Shlomit Dror is a curator and the Managing Director at Jerusalem Culture Unlimited, where she designs and organizes JCU’s programming across all sectors, acts as a lead strategist for promoting artists within JCU’s network, plans and directs public programming, and manages relationships with stakeholders and organization partners.
Shlomit relocated to Jerusalem from New York. In Jerusalem she held the position of the Assistant to the Chief Curator of Fine Arts at the Israel Museum, and in addition curating shows independently at Barbur Gallery and Artists Cube in Jerusalem, among other cultural institutions. Prior to this, while living in the United States, Dror has organized exhibitions in New York Metropolitan area including, “In Her Eyes: Women Behind and in Front of the Camera,” (Newark Museum, 2012), “F_ll in the Bl_nk” (NARS Foundation, 2013), “Ready or Not: 2014 New Jersey Arts Annual” (Newark Museum, 2014), “Seeing through Abstraction” (Residency Unlimited, 2015), “Story of a Story” (Smack Mellon, 2015), “Almost Home: Between Staying and Leaving a Phantom Land” (Dorsky Gallery, 2017), group exhibition at Paul Robeson Galleries at Rutgers University (2017), among others.
Dror’s writing has been published through CUE Art Foundation’s Young Art Critics Mentoring Program and has been included in several exhibition catalogs. In addition, Dror held the position of the Consulting Curator of American Art at the Newark Museum, and has worked in various institutions, including El Museo del Barrio, The Felix Gonzalez -Torres Foundation, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Inchoen Women Artists Biennale. She has served as a visiting critic at Art Port (Tel Aviv), Bezalel Academy of Art (Jerusalem), Residency Unlimited, The Wassaic Project, Wave Hill Visual Arts Program and the Elizabeth Foundation in New York. She received an MA in Museum Studies from New York University and a BA in Art History and Latin American Studies from Bard College. She also took part in Independent Curators International’s (ICI) Curatorial Intensive program.
